Do you struggle to keep up with unused food in your home?

With attention now focused on cutting down on food waste, it's a great time to take a new look at the power to transform leftovers.

Forget Jello molds and mystery meat! This highly engaging presentation will give you exciting new ways inspired by international cuisines, to save money and cut down on climate emissions by "shopping your refrigerator" and reinventing what's left over from last night's dinner into something new and delicious. Plenty of time will be built in for questions and a lively, fun discussion.

Our presenter is Jacquelyn Ottman, food waste advocate, culinary historian, immediate past chair of the Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board, and author, Connecting from A Quarantine Kitchen, My Shelter Island Pandemic Story (KDP 2020). More information about Jacquie Ottman’s work on using up leftovers is available here.

This event is free and open to the public, though we strongly recommend advance registration for planning purposes.

About Jacquie

Jacquelyn Ottman is a native New Yorker and an advocate for zero waste. A pioneer in the field of green marketing since 1989, she is the author of several books on the subject, including three editions of “Green Marketing” (Berrett-Koehler, 2012), considered the definitive text on the subject. Used in college and graduate schools, it has been translated into five languages.

She is immediate past chair, Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board, and principal author of “Creating a Culture of Recycling and Reuse in Your NYC Multifamily Building” and “Engaging Residents of NYC Multifamily Building in Organics Collection.” Both of these free guides, developed as a public service are available as a download from the ManhattanSWAB website.

The founder and editor of WeHateToWaste.com, Jacquie is now focused on reducing food waste by inspiring home and professional cooks to discover the joy in transforming leftovers from yesterday’s dinner into something new and special. She is currently working on a multi- cultural and social history of leftovers, with implications for policy, education, and societal interactions.

Jacquie is the author of three self-published books on her personal culinary history: Family Gatherings: Five Recipes from Five Generations (2000), a collection of family recipes; Ottman and Company: One Daughter Remembers (KDP 2017), the story of her family’s 150-year old NYC meat purveying firm; and Connecting from a Quarantine Kitchen: My Shelter Island Pandemic Story (KDP 2020). She is a member of the Culinary Historians Society of New York and the Authors Guild. Click here for more information on Jacquie and her published books.